{"id":66611,"date":"2021-08-23T06:00:27","date_gmt":"2021-08-22T20:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/?p=66611"},"modified":"2021-08-22T16:21:04","modified_gmt":"2021-08-22T06:21:04","slug":"aspis-decades-confronting-threats-facing-a-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/aspis-decades-confronting-threats-facing-a-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"ASPI\u2019s decades: Confronting threats, facing a pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"
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ASPI celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. This series looks at ASPI\u2019s work since its creation in August 2001.<\/em><\/p>\n

Australia can no longer take refuge in the barriers of time and distance as a defence against the pestilence without. It is clear that geographical notions of security and national stability defined in terms of territorial sovereignty and integrity are not the only relevant factors in today\u2019s environment. Not only has the transnational spread of infectious disease transformed our view of national security by producing threats without visible enemies, but it has also rendered the \u2018national\u2019 insignificant and replaced it with the \u2018international.\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Peter Curson, Invisible enemies<\/em><\/a>, 2005 <\/em><\/p>\n

At the start of the 21st century, terrorism redefined Australia\u2019s threat calculus.<\/p>\n

Canberra\u2019s response remade the national security community, even as the terms of the terrorist threat evolved.<\/p>\n

Terrorism merged with the cyber world. Violent political extremism eventually became as much of a danger as militant jihadism.<\/p>\n

Then, in 2020, the pandemic redid the threat calculus again. Australia experienced the expanded notion of security as old warnings about disease arrived as fact. The pandemic became the<\/em> threat confronting every Australian.<\/p>\n

In the 2020 Counterterrorism yearbook<\/a><\/em>, Isaac Kfir and John Coyne identified three themes:<\/p>\n